Baron Merrot-Terretus's low roar echoed throughout the hall, and the old court baron's expression was resolute at the moment, and his eyes flashed with an unyielding light.

His general statement of defence in defense of the existence of the Ancestral Covenant shocked everyone, including Pedi.

On the throne, Erin Phier's arm around Pedi unconsciously tightened, and her blue eyes looked motionless at the stubborn old man at the bottom of the steps.

Her weak heart began to worry about this old man,

Because she knew very well how determined her husband was to uphold the Kingdom's "New Law"!

She subconsciously looked at her husband, and at this moment, Pedy was surprised by Baron Merlot-Terretus's statement, and he was surprised that the old man would be the first to speak.

Pedi respects these true nobles and the honor of their faith.

So, when the old nobleman expressed his wishes with great excitement, he sat on his throne with his back straight, and listened attentively as a king.

The other nobles in the hall, including Sir Seke-Marat, were impressed by the old nobleman's courage in confronting the royal power, and did not bother him while he spoke.

Although his words were more aimed at the merchant groups represented by Saike-Marat and others, they were more aimed at the Kingdom's "New Law" and the centralization of power that was being implemented in the Kingdom!

In other words, he's against the king, the king on the throne!

His words succeeded in resonating with most of the traditional aristocracy.

Because, from the end of the civil war in the Herian Domain, to the dissolution of the Bjenburg court, and then to the recent initiative of Harrensburg to abolish the local ruling group. The power of the traditional aristocracy was devastating in the Kingdom of Kruria, trembling under the growing power of the monarchy, struggling to find their voice under the dictatorship.

During this time, they lived a very depressed life, so depressed that they were about to go crazy,

And now,

At this moment,

Under the banner of the giant bear,

In the hall of Kawalburg,

Under the throne, in the presence of the king,

Baron Merlot-Terretus shouted the words that had long been suppressed in their hearts in their place.

In an instant,

In the moment after the old nobleman's speech-like words ended, one after another shouts of "yes" echoed in the hall. Like the old nobles at the foot of the steps, they straightened up and looked at the man above the throne.

Instead of acting angry, Pedi smiled, a very peaceful smile, and he smiled at Merrot-Terretus, who was looking directly at him below, at the nobles who were applauding.

The nobles meet Pedi's gaze... Those eyes were so calm that people unconsciously gave birth to a trace of fear and nervousness,

That's not calm, it's confidence!

After the nobles met these eyes, the voices of "good" gradually calmed down.

When the hall became quiet again, Pedi looked at Paul, the great scholar in charge of the laws of the Kingdom, "Bachelor Paul... I would love to know what kind of punishment would be given for instigating a civil war among the nobility, or for supporting a civil war among the nobility, under the Kingdom's New Law?"

"Your Majesty!" a nobleman of the same age as Baron Merrot walked quickly to the central corridor of the hall and walked to Baron Merlot's side, "Are you determined to abolish the Covenant of the Ancestors?

"Your Majesty, we owe allegiance to you according to the oath of our ancestors, open up territories for you, fight bloody battles for you, you stand on the throne, high above... I beg of you, take a serious look at what your most faithful servant is facing right now!"

"Look at that group of businessmen, they are a bunch of profit-chasing villains, they can sell their brothers and blood for money, they can sell their own parents, they can create wealth for you, but they can also bring you disaster... Wealth is not everything, honor is eternal!"

"The language of those merchants is as deceptive as the whispers of demons, they will bring our mighty kingdom of Kruria into the abyss, they are the ones who should be banished!"

In just a minute or two, there were seven or eight great nobles standing around Merlot-Terretus.

Their expressions were as firm as Baron Merlot's, and they did not retreat from the gaze of the ruler on the throne.

"Phew" Pedi let out a sigh of relief, calming the irritable emotions in his heart, he knew very well the obstacles that would be encountered in forcibly abolishing the 'Covenant of the Ancestors', so he had Don Wright hang the corpses of nobles on the old mulberry trees outside the city, just to warn those who opposed him of the price.

He thought his warning had worked, because his intelligence had told him that Prime Minister Daisily Pombo had begun to become cautious in the past two days, but what he didn't expect was that it was these old nobles who were really in trouble.

To be honest, Pedi didn't want to touch these people,

For they rightly say that these men represent the honor of the kingdom... To punish them would be to trample on the honor of the kingdom!

But if we don't deal with them, what is the point of holding this meeting today? If we don't deal with them, what is the authority of the Kingdom's New Law? If we don't deal with them, what will be the future of the Kingdom?

Pedi became embarrassed, and he subconsciously looked at the businessman who was supposed to stand up for him at this time.

But the group of merchants, including Edwin Film, Seke Marat, and others, all hung their heads.

Angry?

Of course there is a little!

The silence of the businessmen and the shrinking of the cabinet members made Pedi suddenly want to abandon the political conflict at one point. Because he felt like a fool.

But in an instant, he shattered that thought.

At the same time, Pedi was even more determined to abolish the Ancestral Covenant.

"You..."After thinking about it, Pedi behaved relaxedly, his tone seemed to be chatting with an old friend, and he looked at the group around Merlot-Tyretus below and said, "You also want to support Baron Merlot's aristocratic civil war?"

This sentence is very soft,

But these fluttering words made the already tense atmosphere in the hall more serious and solemn. It was as if in an instant, the oxygen in the hall was evacuated, and a heavy pressure hit everyone.

After a brief pause, heavy breathing began to echo through the hall.

"Your Majesty—" Baron Merlot's face changed drastically, he did not expect the king to go his own way.

"Master Paul!" but Pedi clearly didn't want to hear him again, "tell them what kind of punishment they will receive for the law they have broken now!"

Paul, who is almost seventy years old, had been dozing off most of the time when he was involved in such meetings.

Of course, he dozed off at the beginning of the meeting, but his casualness had long since been dispelled as the traditional nobles and merchants competed against each other, and by the time the king interrogated.

The old bachelor is old, and he has long been in the habit of being in the limelight, and if he can, he wants to hand over the authority to answer this question.

But when countless pairs of eyes that seemed to be able to eat people fell on him, he knew that he could not escape the question, he took two trembling steps forward, walked to the bottom of the steps, and said slowly to meet the king's questioning gaze: "Your Majesty, according to... According to the provisions of the Kingdom's "New Law", the planning... And... Involved in the civil war of the nobility... All nobles should be stripped of their titles and exiled to the borders. ”

The old bachelor spoke slowly, occasionally pausing to think, and the short sentence came out of his mouth for more than a minute.

Although the words were slow, they were as slow as they were anxious, but before the words were finished, no one spoke to stop them.

When the old bachelor finished speaking, the hall suddenly became extremely quiet, and even the sound of breathing, which had become heavy from nervousness, disappeared without a trace.

"Hmm—" Pedi nodded to Paul and waved his hand, then leaned back on his throne, tapping his fingers rhythmically on the armrest.

"Pounce"

"Pounce"

The handrails inlaid with solid wood make a sound like a fusion of weapons.

It's small, but big enough for most of the hall to hear.

"Your Majesty!" Irene Phil on the throne interrupted his thoughts as he was about to speak, and when he looked at his wife beside him, Elein whispered, "You have to think clearly!"

Pedi nodded lightly to his queen, and then said to everyone in the hall, "The kingdom's new law represents the future, and no one can deny the future of the kingdom, and no one can stop me from moving forward. His tone gradually turned cold, and he looked at Merlot-Terretus and other aristocratic representatives with a slightly murderous gaze.

"Your Majesty!" said Daisily Pombo, who stepped up to the bottom of the stairs and looked up at the king on the throne:

"Your Majesty... Baron Merlot, they have no intention of waging a war of the nobility, he... He's just..."

"Marquis Daisili. Pedi's gaze fell on Daisily Pombo: "As the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, I want to ask you... How much do you know about the Kingdom's New Law?"

"Do you simply think... Do you think that the New Law is just a tool for me to gather power, a transitional means for me as a king to centralize power and achieve dictatorship?"

"What about you?" said Pedy's voice suddenly raised, as if to shatter the sky of the hall, "Do you think so too?"

"There is no denying that most of you think so, and you curse me as a dictator in your hearts. There was no anger in Pedy's voice, as if he were recounting the most mundane of things, "I can not care about your curses, curses, as long as... As long as you don't come to hinder me and the rise of the kingdom, I can even offer you as ancestors. ”

"Are you for the 'Ancestral Covenant'?" Peddy stood up and looked at the group of old nobles in the central hallway with a gloomy gaze, "Shit!" he pointed at Merrot Terretus, "You are only for yourselves, only for the interests of the little shit you have at hand, and you have no regard for the interests of the country, and even less for the future of the kingdom. ”

"You cover your filth with honor, and you cover your absurdity with the covenant of the ancestors. In the past two hundred miles, you have waged a civil war of honor with a shout of honor, how many innocent families have been destroyed, and how many valiant soldiers have been laid to rest in the ground. ”

"You're going to say, 'That's the honor.'"

"But do you know how much damage has been done in Crewe's territory over the past two hundred years for the sake of what you call 'honor'?"

Pei Di glanced at the audience coldly, "According to the statistical research of the Academy of Scholars and the Finance Department, the losses caused by the 'Holy Noble Civil War' in your mouth to the people of Kru Territory in the past are fifty times the total losses of our territory during the Orc War three years ago!"

"You wouldn't be a stranger to the orc war three years ago, would you?"

"What is the concept that the entire northern territory of Crewe was destroyed in that war, and that the civil war in the past caused fifty times the losses of that one?"

"Enough to destroy the Kingdom of Kruria ten times!"

"You will destroy my kingdom and my people. Pei Di pointed at Baron Merrot and the others, and said coldly: "I will destroy you first, and destroy everything for you!"

After saying this, Pedi looked at his Prime Minister Daisily Pombo, "As the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, as the person who acts in my place, what have you been doing these months?"

"Have you done something that a prime minister should do?"

"What punishment should be imposed on the local nobles for the use of private businesses by the people without investigation by the police and trial by the local government, and what punishment should be imposed on merchants for tax evasion and smuggling?"

"When I asked about you, as the Prime Minister of the Empire, how did you answer?"

"You use 'local rule' to prevaricate me!"

"This—" Daisily Pombo subconsciously wanted to explain, but didn't know how.

Peidi didn't give him a chance to explain, and continued to ask: "Let me ask you again, what was the total amount of local finance and tax revenue at the beginning of the kingdom? After the introduction of the new policy, how much wasteland was opened in the local area? What was the total trade of Balan and Seka last year? How much was the army's monthly training expenses?"

"I..." Daisily Pombo subconsciously wanted to answer, these questions were specially reported to him, he thought he had mastered them, but in the face of the inquiry, under the gaze of countless eyes, he found that he couldn't answer any of these questions!

"Forget it," Pedi waved his hand in disappointment, and his gaze fell on Baron Merlot-Terretus and the others again, "The Council of Nobles openly challenged the Kingdom's New Law, depriving your family of all fiefs except for the family estate, and prohibiting members of their clan wars from entering Crewe City. ”

"You... Convincing?"

When Merrot Terretus and the others heard this, their old bodies began to tremble constantly, and their faces changed dramatically.

When these nobles were about to say something, Baron Merrot took a deep breath to suppress the unwillingness in his heart, and stopped the unrealistic thoughts of the nobles around him, and whispered to the left and right: "Your Majesty has made up your mind, we... Step aside. ”

As he spoke, he took the lead and bowed to Pedi on the throne, "May the gods always bless you, Your Majesty." ”

With that, he turned decisively and walked briskly towards the door with a group of nobles who followed him.

No one dares to say anything anymore,

The castle knights originally wanted to come forward and arrest them according to the law, but were coldly rebuked by Erin Field.

As the figures of the old nobles disappeared from the door of the hall, Pedi returned to his throne and sat down anew, with a terrible look of indifference on his face.